Healing + Human Potential
How Attachment Styles Hold the Key to Emotional Freedom and Relationship Growth | EP 67
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
What if understanding your attachment style could transform the way you connect with others? In this episode, I sit down with Mark Groves, a Human Connection Specialist, to explore the deep connection between early life experiences, relational patterns, and the journey toward healthier relationships. Mark breaks down the different attachment styles—anxious, avoidant, secure, and disorganized—showing how they shape our ability to navigate intimacy and trust. We discuss practical tools like mindfulness, somatic practices, and boundary-setting to help you move from old patterns to greater self-awareness and connection. Mark also shares insights into the link between self-worth and boundaries, emphasizing why they’re foundational to building authentic relationships. Whether you’re navigating a challenging relationship, working on self-growth, or curious about creating deeper connections, this conversation offers actionable insights and empowering perspectives to help you thrive. === Join our ICF-Accredited Coach Certification Program, the Institute for Coaching Mastery, designed to help you become a highly skilled + confident coach at the top of your game, in any niche. Whether you’re Brand New wanting to shortcut the learning curve, or you’re Experienced looking to back higher fees with real value, we offer trauma-informed Trainings + Tools, Live Coaching, and a Customizable 6-figure + Beyond Signature Roadmap to take your income + impact to the next level. If you want to create lasting change in your life and feel confident in helping others do the same, while having a thriving business… Click this link to Learn More + Apply Today: https://www.alyssanobriga.com/applynow ✨ === GUEST LINKS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markgrovespodcast/# Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/createthelove/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@markgroves Website: https://markgroves.com/ === Have you watched our previous episode with Gay Hendricks? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k7c15l426RE ==== Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved. === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495
Chapter 1: What is my attachment style and why does it matter?
And so again, more awareness, but also compassionate awareness, like you can change it and working with a trained therapist coach or a friend that's securely attached. I know before I got into my relationship with my husband, my best friend and I were like, well, why not use our friendship as a way to help each other heal until our partners come?
Because you can use anyone as long as, you know, as a conscious relationship to look at them as a mirror and have those microscopic truths about, I get nervous when you say that and to slow it down. And like part of what you were sharing is, What would be helpful if I want to take space? Do you need me to check in with you?
It's like being more conscious instead of programmed, I think will help just make it easier to navigate if you have a willing friend or partner. And if you don't, you can still do the work on your own again with a therapist or trained professional, which is really great.
I've heard of this term breadcrumbing just recently, where it's like you give them just enough attention to keep pulling them through, but not enough to kind of commit or take it further. Talk to us about breadcrumbing. Is that one style or another? Is that something separate? And then how do you identify it or kind of overcome that dynamic?
You know, breadcrumbing. I think it's a, they have now all these cool terms.
I know, I'm so old school.
Did our generation not have cool terms? Like breadcrumbing, there's like zombieing where they disappear and then they come back from the dead.
Okay, okay, thought that was ghosting.
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How do anxious and avoidant attachment styles affect relationships?
Yeah, and it might not even be possible.
Well, for me, boundaries, the way that I like it is saying like what I will do in a particular situation rather than trying to get them to change. So then I can always honor my own boundary, even if they don't, right? So it's like, if you make a date with me and you're late, I won't make another date. You know, it's just sharing what you'll do so that it's not like a threat.
It's just more of like having self-respect and communicating that and they can participate or not.
Yeah, boundaries have to have consequences. Otherwise, they're just suggestions. You know, like, And people who are boundary bulldozers, they know you're suggesting. They're going to test you. You know, it's Harriet Lerner who talks about, like, they do a change-back move. So as soon as you, like, do something, they try to get you to change back by doing something else.
And so, you know, at the core of regulation is really, like, trust, is that do I trust that when I need to have my own back, that I have access to the resources, to my voice, to be able to say this doesn't work or this does work. And if we don't have access to our no, then our yes is really filled with small print.
So when someone says I have anxiety, anxiety is perceived to be a future-oriented experience, I always look to like, where are you not fully self-expressed? Where do you not have access to all your emotions? And, you know, just making it like more simple that there's core emotions and then there's just like different branches of those core emotions. Like, which emotions do I not have access to?
Because if you don't have access to expression, then you can't steer your life. If you can't steer your life, your life is going to go kind of rudderlessly in the direction that other people decide for you, likely the expectations of society, culture, family, all that kind of stuff.
Yeah, and this is, you know, as people are becoming more self-aware, just listening, just again, being compassionate because the safety strategies that you have served a purpose, they really did help you. And now you're learning to evolve differently and really take the reins back from your life. So the compassion is important with the awareness.
Otherwise, because if you judge it, you're further stuck with it. Or if you identify as somebody that... doesn't have boundaries, it's harder to change that because identity is hard to change. So it's like, oh, I have a pattern up until now, but it's not who you are. So just those two, don't identify, don't judge. It's helpful.
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